As for Enoch Powell I only quoted a speech he made in 1981 because it bears some relevance. I never said I was directing my point at any ethnic group and I stand by what I say about this country being an easy ticket for immigrants of whetever origin. There are some who are prepared to come to Britain to work and make a better life for themselves and I applaud those that do. I work alongside various people of foreign origin and deal with several shopkeepers and restaurant owners of foreign persuation and have no axe to grind with them or their various cultures. We are however a small island with limited resources and cannot keep an open door policy for all when there are no jobs, no prospects and little hope in the future for the kids of today. That and only that is the reason I posted the part of the speech, and I don't and never will vote for the BNP.

This is from 1981, check out Wikipedia "In July a riot took place in Toxteth, Liverpool. On 16 July Powell gave a speech in the Commons in which he said the riots could not be understood unless one takes into consideration the fact that in some large cities between a quarter and a half of those under 25 were immigrant or descended from immigrants. He read out a letter he had received from a member of the public about immigration which included the line: "As they continue to multiply and as we can't retreat further there must be conflict". A Labour MP Martin Flannery intervened, saying Powell was making "a National Front speech". Powell predicted "inner London becoming ungovernable or violence which could only effectively be described as civil war" and Flannery intervened again to ask what Powell knew about inner cities. He replied: "I was a Member for Wolverhampton for a quarter of a century. What I saw in those early years of the development of this problem in Wolverhampton has made it impossible for me ever to dissociate myself from this gigantic and tragic problem". He also criticised the view that the causes of the riots were economic: "Are we seriously saying that so long as there is poverty, unemployment and deprivation our cities will be torn to pieces, that the police in them will be the objects of attack and that we shall destroy our own environment? Of course not" Whatever your views you have to admit he was spot on, this country is just an open door for anyone who wants to come in and grab the benefits going. Then they riot because they say they aren't getting enough................"give me strength" !!!!